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Our 4th

Happy 5th day of July! To my friends here in the States, I hope you had a wonderful Independence Day. We had a lovely day. We watched Despicable Mein the morning (we hadn't seen it yet!), played on the new tree swing Mr. B installed the day before...

The hula hoop project is one I've longed to try for a couple of years now. One of my favorite family music artists, Elizabeth Mitchell, did a guest post on SouleMama. (Fitting, as I first found out about SouleMama via Elizabeth Mitchell's email newletter!) We just followed this simple video tutorial:

(Of course, it turned out our local hardware store was sorely lacking in pipe, so a trip to a big box store was in order for us. We tried!)

After a family 4th of July dinner at my sister's new house, our little family headed to our local drive-in!

We loaded up on horribly junky concessions, while the neighborhood surrounding the drive-in lit up the skies with fireworks. We knew it would be a very late night for the girls, but our neighborhood usually stays very loud until late on the 4th. We might as well have fun supporting a local institution! We saw Despicable Me 2and Monsters University, and of course, lots of awesome vintage drive-in bumpers and snack advertisements!

I'm sorry I haven't had much in the way of books to post about this week. The weather has been too beautiful. We're spending so much time outside! We are reading, but I haven't had a chance to scan or take pictures, find links, etc. Thank you for bearing with me! I hope everyone is having a lovely season.

There used to be so many drive-ins in and around town, but only the one remains. It's a big one, though, with two screens and it just upgraded to digital. I'm so glad it's still here. Most of our historic regular movie theaters have become other things or have been torn down.

The hula hoops are so easy to make! I can't hula worth a darn, but Big Sis was starting to get it with a regular store-bought hoop. The homemade ones are a bit heavier, and sooooo much easier for her to hula with! She can keep one going for a while, and now she's working on two at a time. We also dropped a few marbles in each one, so we get a good noise going while she's doing it.

Everything looks lovely! I'm glad you had such a great day. The hula hoops are amazing, I love them although I've never been able to play with one for more than -well, five seconds? It just goes down and down and down... :O)

I can't hula, either. I just can't seem to move that way. Oh, well. Big Sis is having great luck with the homemade hoops. They're just a little heavier, which seems to help. It was a beautiful day yesterday. We were still musing about it this afternoon. Everyone slept in today, after our late night at the movies, then we went out for "breakfast" at 1:00! (I'd call it "brunch," but really, it was just our breakfast...)

Figures. :o( I think I've pinpointed a couple of places where drive-ins used to be. One of them is now covered with multiple car dealerships, the other became the grocery store/TG&Y (now a grocery store/Dollar General/Atwoods) where my family shopped when I was little. Progress?

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